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Louis Deshayes, maître in 1756.
Louis Deshayes was established on the rue des Vieux-Augustins, and was still active during the beginning of the Revolution.
This panel depicts the first successful hot-air balloon, designed in the late eighteenth century by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, who in 1783, constructed a hot-air balloon 110 feet in circumfrence. It ascended to 6,000 feet, sailed for ten minutes, and eventually landed over a mile away. The first manned flight of the Montgolfier's balloon occurred on November 21, 1783, when physician Jean-Frandôis Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, an infantry major, were kept aloft for twenty-five minutes.
Louis Deshayes was established on the rue des Vieux-Augustins, and was still active during the beginning of the Revolution.
This panel depicts the first successful hot-air balloon, designed in the late eighteenth century by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, who in 1783, constructed a hot-air balloon 110 feet in circumfrence. It ascended to 6,000 feet, sailed for ten minutes, and eventually landed over a mile away. The first manned flight of the Montgolfier's balloon occurred on November 21, 1783, when physician Jean-Frandôis Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, an infantry major, were kept aloft for twenty-five minutes.